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   by xk_id 14y ago

   really? that's amazing! I'd love to see a formal proof of this. edit: I suppose this counts as proof http://www.had2know.com/academics/cubic-through-4-points.htm... , but atm I don't remember why matrixes are connected with equations.
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   by xk_id 14y ago

   hmm.. the article says: "If we encoded our secret with a cubic function and distributed coordinate sub-passwords it would require any combination of four points to determine the intercept and the secret." Maybe I'm missing something here, b
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   by xk_id 14y ago

   I didn't know – thanks for bringing this up.
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   by xk_id 14y ago

   I wonder – how can you be so greedy? what a loser.
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   by xk_id 14y ago

   well done, man, well done. It warms my heart to see people who understood what computers are for.
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   by xk_id 14y ago

   I need a Mars globe now.
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   by xk_id 14y ago

   Do you have any bibliography for this topic? I would be very grateful, I'm extremely interested in this.
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   by xk_id 14y ago

   I really subscribe to the last piece of advice: "do something fundamental". It's exactly what gives the kind of progress I love, yet most people don't focus on it.
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   by xk_id 14y ago

   Then you don't like the world "illness" in general. The same holds for physiological health: none is completly bacteria-free, has perfect levels of vitamins, etc. However, we need to operate in our judgements with ideals (healthy; sane;
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    Hmmm let me try… Psychedelics -> Social rejection MDMA -> Problems with parents Weed -> Infantilism Alcohol -> low IQ NOTE: they are not absolute (e.g IQ below average), but relative to what would make that particular indivi
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    I personally read about 85% of it. It was interesting
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    I say the whole dichotomy between the day-to-day vocabulary and technical/scientific vocabularies should be dropped altogether. This dichotomy is responsible for the cliquey attitude of scientists on one end; the treatment of sciences as es
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    I hear another very interesting application of topology was in human psychology, by the famous Kurt Lewin. He wrote a book, "Principles of Topological Psychology"; I haven't read it yet, but it sounds very interesting.
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    I am usually very weary of this kind of "science for the general public" articles. We all know how the "computer science for the general public" articles sound like – I usually doubt whether I would get an accurate picture after reading the
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    IKEA Disobedients(moma.org)

    2 points by xk_id 14y ago|0 comments
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    good marketing for Apple :)
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    thanks, I didn't want to say it myself :)
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    +1
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    Thanks, I didn't know
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    can anyone name one figure who had an important contribution to mankind, and smoked weed?
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    This definitely echoes my own observations. Due to various circumstances, in my life I have so far been thoroughly exposed to numerous, unconnected groups of drug users – all of which were smoking weed more or less regularly, and almost all
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    Principia Cybernetica:Placing the Web at the Center of Man’s Quest for Knowledge(goertzel.org)

    1 points by xk_id 14y ago|0 comments
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    Principia Cybernetica:Placing the Web at the Center of Man’s Quest for Knowledge

    3 points by xk_id 14y ago|0 comments
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    This looks like and Ad, and nothing but. It doesn't look like a real experiment.
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    HP releases open source OS (phys.org)

    3 points by xk_id 14y ago|0 comments
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4570494
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    Let me start by describing how the nervous system is structured in strata, with lower, "thalamic" nerve centres which are closer to the outside world, giving us sense impressions; and higher, "cortical" nerve centres which are further away
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    Recreational Mathematics - Parabolas(io9.com)

    1 points by xk_id 14y ago|0 comments
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    some kind of traditional 'scarves', and lots and lots of letters, notebooks, newspaper articles and other documents.
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    by xk_id 14y ago

    I doubt they haven't x-rayed it already ;)